State v. Briggs’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
1 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently February 2022
1 district · 17 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Paul v. Davis · Wisconsin v. Constantineau · Kentucky Department of Corrections v. Thompson · Bracy v. Gramley
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The powers of the government of the State of Utah shall be divided into three distinct departments, the Legislative, the Executive, and the Judicial; and no person charged with the exercise of powers properly belonging to one of these departments, shall exercise any functions appertaining to either of the others, except in the cases herein expressly directed or permitted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[If the challenged state action violates the federal Constitution, we need not reach the question of whether the Utah Constitution provides additional protection; we may instead resolve the case with reference only to the federal Constitution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ott“we 'sustain the trial court's judgment unless it is against the clear weight of the evidence, or ... [we] reach[ ] a definite and firm conviction that a mistake has been made.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.